As 2025 wound down, four African regions continued to endure terrorist threats: the Sahel, particularly Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger;…
Browsing: Al-Shabaab
An expanding swath of Islamic terrorism stretching from western Mali through the Lake Chad Basin to Somalia and Mozambique accounted…
Al-Shabaab’s attack last October on the Godka Jilacow prison in Mogadishu took place with the help of foreign fighters from…
Terrorism attacks and deaths fell sharply worldwide in 2025, including in parts of Africa, but the numbers might tell a…
As foreign powers sign business deals and deepen diplomatic ties in Africa, one foreign player operates mostly behind the scenes:…
Authorities in semiautonomous Puntland State are warning that collaborations between Somali pirate groups and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen…
The Somali government wants to expand its armed forces to 100,000 Soldiers to stop the terrorist group al-Shabaab, which controls…
A United Nations expert panel has released a report showing that Yemen’s Houthi rebels and al-Shabaab terrorists have exchanged intelligence,…
The sun beat down upon the pristine, white deck of the Galaxy Leader vehicle carrier as it steamed through the…
Somalia has unveiled a national strategy designed to counter improvised explosive devices, the deadliest weapon used by terror group al-Shabaab.…